Comments on: IDC: Apple sold most smartphones in Q4, but Samsung wins 2011

By: The Gnome

The Gnome — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:25:22 +0000

Awesome feat when you compare just one device to dozens (seems more like hundreds) from Samsung (and a few copy-cats to boot)

But those who think this is a battle vs. war thing are losers. Honestly, check the financials lately? Um… yea, tell me who’s “winning” again?

By: Stefano

Stefano — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:30:13 +0000

Apple is doomed:

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By: Lawrence Krupp

Lawrence Krupp — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:10:53 +0000

“but Samsung wins 2011″

So should I sell all my AAPL because the end is near.

By: Smoking Joe Frasier

Smoking Joe Frasier — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:39:21 +0000

Samsung needed all the help it could muster. Apple and Verizon finally got their act together and along with Sprint that had to help. But Samsung required all of the carriers and Android and Windows 7 to boot. And the nail in the coffin is when you design your phone to look like the coolest most innovative and sexiest phone that could help take you over the top. Samsung’s mobile phones shamelessly copied the iPhone design rather than come up with something unique so that Samsung can separate themselves from Apple and competition. Why copy when you can employ resources from inside of Korea for their industrial design talents. Apple goes to great lengths and painstaking detail to produce first class level products and I fail to see why the rest of the world can’t do the same.
And that is why Apple will garner most of the profits even though they are not the market leader in phones and tablets. They developed, designed and own an ecological system that will take them way far leaving the body count behind them.

By: Lindsworth Horatio Deer

Lindsworth Horatio Deer — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:59:32 +0000

The Apple never fall too far form the Tree of Human Consciousness, especially when she can speak, Siri -style. Nielsen predicted a win for Apple in the Final Quarter of 2011AD, but i guess Apple won the battle, but lost the war overall……Android horde is STILL coming……

http://www.geezam.com/nielsen-declares-apple-iphone-4s-cut-into-android-sales/

By: Andy Space

Andy Space — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:36:28 +0000

What gets in the way when I use my smartphone is the lack of reliable broadband access. There’s still not enough to go round, and doing everything I want to do with it is expensive, unless I focus on using public WiFi points. I read this article about white spaces tech, and I’m interested if perhaps this will be part of the future for mobility? http://blogs.orange-business.com/live/2012/02/the-broadband-revolution-will-not-be-televised.html

By: Jonathan Hewlett

Jonathan Hewlett — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:07:43 +0000

great go apple…